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Two council incumbents defeated; Martell write-in wins for chairman

Randy Kusilek and David Reese were knocked off the River Falls City Council in Tuesday's spring election. Katie Chaffee, former mayor of River Falls, edged Reese for the District 3 council spot, with 232 votes to Reese's 186. Kusilek was beaten by Diane Odeen for council at-large, 688-532.

Last fall Odeen was defeated for state Assembly by incumbent Dean Knudson of Hudson.

Two other City Council incumbents won: In District 1, it was David Cronk 242-192 over Dave Ostness. In District 2, it was Jim Nordgren 121-50 over Eunice Beauchman.

In the town of Martell, write-in Town Board chairman candidate Eric Eckhoff defeated the official candidate Joe Kroll. The vote was 121-86.

Kroll was trying to succeed Arby Linder, who chose not to run again after being Martell Town Board chairman for six years.

In the town of River Falls, Rita Kozak defeated Dianna Weber 205-89 to become town treasurer. Both were trying to succeed Caroline Hamilton who retired.

In the town of Clifton, John Rohl defeated Stuart Henning for supervisor #1, 140-98.

Many spring election races were uncontested. This included the races for River Falls school board.